Introduction To Speech Communication Analysis

Ermal Hasimja
Introduction to Speech Communication
Teodor Laci

1st speech
Author & Speaker: Dananjaya Hettiarachchi
Title: I see something
Introduction:
As an introduction of his speech the author has shown to the audience a flower. The flower serves as a metaphor for telling us that we all are unique and special. (In our society we give flowers to someone we think is special to us. Even in this speech, each one from the audience is considered special to Dananjaya Hettiarachchi) then he continues telling that each one of them has something special that makes them beautiful in our eyes (like the flower he holds in his hands). Later, as an attention grabber, he makes a personal question to the audience (this way he integrates more the audience

K. Rowling
Introduction:
J. K. Rowling uses as a way of introduction a merger of introducing herself with some sense of humor. She starts her introduction by telling us how she experienced the news of being the commencement speaker of Harvard graduate students of 2008. Just the idea of presenting a speech in Harvard made her to lose weight. Before entering the main body of her speech, she starts recalling her memories of Baroness Mary Warnock, who was the commencement speaker the day she graduated, and shows the audience the thesis that she will talk about in her speech.
She starts telling her story how she ended up jobless, divorced and very poor after graduating from modern literature in Britain.
In her story there are two thesis that she tells to the audience.
Her thesis: Benefits of failure & the importance of imagination.

She learned the price of real friends that stayed by her side even though she was a failure at that moment in an epic scale in life. She learned to stop pretending to herself that she was anything other than what she was. She learned to refocus all her energies to the only work that mattered to her. She was set free because her greatest fear had been realized. So rock bottom became the solid foundation on which she rebuilt her life. Failure gave her an inner security that she had never attained by passing the examinations. She learned things about herself that she could learn them no other way. Also she discovered that she had a strong will and more discipline than she had suspected. According to her the lessons taught during those times were more valuable than any qualification that she had ever earned.
The arguments for her 2nd thesis, the importance of imagination, are as follows:
a) Thanks to the imagination, we can empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
b) We can learn and understand without having experienced
Conclusion:
She ended her speech by wishing to the graduates of Harvard a successful future and real friendships like the ones she had during her difficult times.
In my opinion all the greatest part in her speech was to support her two thesis:
1. Benefits of failures
2. The Importance of imagination.
Throughout her storytelling we listen a